Casey Newton writes about why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter because they are "designed for storage, not sparking insights".
I'm a heavy user of Obsidian and this newsletter is created by and large within that software. While i agree with Newton, i also have to admit that daily journaling and some zettelkastening does change your way of thinking to at least some extend. But also, Zettelkasten-Systems are not for everyone and are mostly suited for people who already have a large knowledge base to draw from. Still, I consider much in the PKM/productivity-space to be voodoo-bullshit bordering on fraud.

"The heart of this fight boils down to whether we accept that generative AI training on copyrighted material is an inevitability." Nothing is inevitable, but if we treat foundational AI models akin to public libraries as i suggested here, this debate and legal questions might be easier to resolve.